On January 28th at 1:35 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – Ajda Sticker presents the ORF magazine “Heimat Fremde Heimat” on Sunday, January 28th, 2024, at 1:35 p.m. on ORF 2 with the following contributions:
Call for immigration of Jews
At the beginning of the 20th century, Vienna was considered the cultural capital of Judaism. Around 200,000 Jews lived here. After the genocide by the National Socialists, there are now only around 15,000 Jews living in the whole of Austria. The young Israeli Yuval Yaari moved to Vienna six years ago and wants to build a new life for himself here. He returned to the hometown of his grandfather Moshe Jahoda, who fled alone from the National Socialists to Palestine in 1938 when he was only twelve years old. Thanks to dual citizenship, which is permitted to descendants of Nazi victims, Jews repeatedly decide to migrate to Austria. And that is urgently necessary, as voices from the Israelite religious community say. They would like to move in so that the community can continue to be active. Ajda Sticker reports.
Difficult dealing with Nazi legacy
For a long time, Austria hardly faced up to its Nazi past. But there are an increasing number of initiatives that deal with coming to terms with the Nazi legacy and its roots. For example, students ask what their grandparents did during the Nazi era, and buildings are also examined to see what they were used for during the Nazi dictatorship. In addition, prominent National Socialists can now have their honorary doctorates revoked by law. However, Sabina Zwitter’s report shows that this processing is not going smoothly.
Late commemoration of Roma and Sinti
For years, representatives of the Roma ethnic group have been calling for a central memorial for the Nazi victims from their own ranks. The genocide of the Roma and Sinti, with around half a million people murdered, is little anchored in general awareness; discrimination and stigmatization are still widespread today. For a long time, this group of victims was not treated equally to the others and it was only with the establishment of the Austrian National Fund for Victims of National Socialism in 1995 that things changed. Most recently, the National Fund was also entrusted with the task of supporting the establishment of the central memorial for the Nazi victims. A report by Tatjana Koren.